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I haven't had horses buck very often with me, usually just a playful pop,
but two weeks ago I had an all out rodeo under me.  I did not know what caused 
the rodeo until I bailed to save my life. As the horse went buckin g past me 
off trail into the brushy forest , I saw a huge bramble stuck to his tail and 
wraped into his  Hind End. This Horse thought the cougar had landed. It wasn't 
just a little bramble, it was the inch long thorns that dig in and will not let 
go. I never saw it coming because he caught it from behind with his tail. He 
bolted forward and bucked like I have never felt. I tried to bend him to a 
stop. His head was tense and in the bucking position, I could not reel him in. 
I have never had that feeing before.  He knows the one rein stop, I ride him in 
a ropehalter all the time. But this guy went straight to his right brain and 
there was no coming back. He headed off trail into the trees and brush. I did 
not want to become mince meat so I baled. If it had been in the desert with 
open terrian and no mud to slip and fall on , I would have tried to ride it 
out.  In my book , no horse is bomb proof. But I did find him, or my neighbor 
who was out riding in another direction found my horse a half mile away. We 
lived to ride another day. He has marks on the back of his hind end where the 
thorns
took hold. Poor guy, I hate those things, I know how he felt. A  few days later 
I decided I better try the desensitize him. I cut some bramlbes and rubbed him 
all over with them dangling around and underneath him. He hardly looked at 
them. It was he thorns that hooked him and would'nt let go that got to him. I 
still have a big bruise in my buttocks to prove it. My arm ached for aday, the 
arm that tried to pull  his head around on a bucking horse.
Lianne

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